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LETTER: Cross placement legal

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Some readers express opinions about what the U.S. Constitution says, but then guess at the meaning of its contents. Letter writer Nancy Williams seems toÂ demonstrate thisÂ theory (âKeep crosses off public land,â Your Views, March 18).

Nowhere in the one brief sentence of the First Amendment does it address public land; norÂ does it discuss the separation of church and state and nowhere does it mention memorials.

It was the authors who did not wish the newly formed government to have the right to impose a national religion, as was the case in their former country, with the Church of England. Recently, it has been the efforts ofÂ atheistÂ zealotsÂ who have convinced the U.S. courts that those words somehow extend toÂ cases involving the placement of memorials.

To support thisÂ positionÂ undermines the assertion that she is sympathetic to theÂ reason behind the memorial.

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